1962 · Circle-System Anaesthesia Machine · Work 1065 of 1,871
An operating theatre of a district hospital in Saxony early on a winter morning, pale green tiles, grey-blue light through frosted windows, the round operating lamp dark, beside the head end of an empty table under a white sheet an anaesthesia stand one metre sixty tall of cream-white cast metal on an X-shaped foot with castors, two tall cream-white gas cylinders upright in its frame, between them a narrow box with three plain glass tubes and floats, round gauges, plain with bare pointers, a chrome canister of white granules on a chrome arm, black corrugated hoses in loops, a flesh-coloured rubber mask on the sheet, a gloved hand turning a cylinder valve.